An address by the Society of Apothecaries, to the general practitioners of England and Wales, on the second report of the joint deputation of the Society of Apothecaries and the National Association of General Practitioners.

  • Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.
Date:
1845
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Credit: An address by the Society of Apothecaries, to the general practitioners of England and Wales, on the second report of the joint deputation of the Society of Apothecaries and the National Association of General Practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20 was denounced by the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons as a measure by which it was proposed to sacrifice the interests of the physicians and sur- geons to gratify the ambition of the general prac- titioners. Under such circumstances nothing is so easy as to discover that a proposed arrangement, however beneficial it may be in the main, tails to effect all that a particular class would wish to see effected, and therefore, to denounce it to that class as im- politic and unjust—nothing so easy as to excite disappointment and discontent, and to fix the re- proach of failure upon those who by a firm but temperate advocacy of the claims of their profes- sional brethren, when principles were at stake, and by the encouragement of mutual concession in questions of machinery and detail, have perseveringly laboured to reconcile conflicting interests, and to assist in overcoming the almost hopeless difficulties surrounding the question of Medical Refoim. The great question for the general practitioner to decide is, whether the proposed arrangement, as a whole, secures to him the great objects for which he is striving ? Does it secure to him all he enjoys at present? Does it give him a representative in- stitution, in which he will be allowed to exercise a real control and influence over the management of his own affairs; an institution charged with the duty, and possessing the power of representing his feeling's, and watching over and protecting his in-